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A large decrease in heat-shock-induced proteolysis after tryptophan starvation leads to increased expression of phage lambda lysozyme cloned in Escherichia coli.

ABSTRACT: The R gene coding for phage lambda lysozyme (lambda L), cloned under the control of the PL promoter on a multicopy vector, is expressed in an Escherichia coli strain auxotrophic for tryptophan. Induction by a thermal shift after tryptophan supplementation in a culture initially brought into stationary phase by tryptophan starvation leads to highly increased expression. A thermally unstable mutant protein, difficult to obtain under standard conditions, can be easily produced by post-stationary-phase expression. It is shown that this is due to a drastic decrease in the heat-shock-induced proteolysis normally observed on thermal induction. These data are discussed in relation to our present knowledge of stringent and heat-shock responses.

SUBMITTER: Soumillion P

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1133037 | biostudies-other | 1992 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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